Ready Together: Regional Kindergarten Readiness Programs
OberlinKids is one of many community collaboratives of United Way of Greater Lorain County.
Ready Set Go Collaborative
Serves: Elyria, Ohio
“Ready Set Go…to Kindergarten (RSG) is a community-led, school-linked community collaborative. We focus on meeting the needs of the whole child (academically, physically, behaviorally, socially, and emotionally) to ensure each Elyria child enters kindergarten ready to learn. This is important because children are expected to have mastered 164 skills by the time they enter kindergarten! There are several ways RSG can help your child and family so your child is ready for school and ready for life.
RSG seeks to build a bridge from early childhood education to elementary school and beyond with the belief that children ready for kindergarten are ready for life.
Ready Set Go…to Kindergarten is one of 11 Community Collaboratives powered by United Way of Greater Lorain County that is working to improve the health, education, and financial stability of all residents in our communities.”
— Source: Ready Set Go Website
Rising Titans Collaborative
Serves: Lorain, Ohio
“Health, education, and resource organizations have come together to work as partners and create initiatives to ensure Lorain’s children are prepared to enter Kindergarten. Rising Titans is made up of 21 partners and 4 advocates (as of FY23-24) whose mission aligns with improving the health and education of Lorain’s littlest learners. Together we collaborate, using Rising Titans as one platform, to meet the needs of Lorain’s early childhood education to support families with children ages 0-5. The ultimate goal is to have every Lorain child prepared for Kindergarten from birth while strengthening the whole family and community.
The Collaborative forms initiatives from our four pillars – Empowering Families, Engaging Families, Healthy Beginnings and Aligning Systems. We work together to create data measures under each one of the pillars, which drives the work around our Kindergarten Readiness mission.
Rising Titans is powered by United Way of Greater Lorain County, and is one of three Kindergarten Readiness Collaboratives and one of eleven total across the county. Our partner Neighborhood Alliance supports the Director along with Collaborative goals, the mission, and all initiatives as Lead Partner.”
— Source: Rising Titans Website
Sparkler
Serves: Ohio Families
“The early years of a child’s life are very important: their brains develop rapidly, laying the foundation for their future learning, behavior, and wellbeing. Ohio families can use the Sparkler mobile app for FREE, thanks to Ohio’s Help Me Grow program and the Ohio Department of Children & Youth in order to:
Understand your child’s development — and celebrate their milestones — from 0-5 through the mobile Ages & Stages Questionnaires,
Find fun ways to play together to support early learning/development, and
Get tips on parenting and child development and connect with professionals who can answer your questions and provide support and referrals.”
— Source: Sparkler Website
